Should you use a pingpong grip for pickle ball the reason why this is good is because you could use this index finger to get a lot more leverage behind the ball on your forehand side but on the backhand side this is where the downfall is the pickle ball is a lot heavier than a pingpong so on the backhand side if you hit the ball here.

Your wrist kind of turns because you don’t have as much backhand support right over here additionally this finger right here becomes a liability I see a lot of ping pong players getting their fingers cliffed and fast hands battles because their index finger covers a lot of their pickle ball paddle when I first started playing pickle ball I actually.

Had my thumb back over here so I was amazing at backhand punches I would just punch all day long and I thought it was great but the downside of this ping pong grip is good players started hitting to my forehand side and I would do something awkward like this and I couldn’t hit like forehand at all because I stuck to a heavy backhand side.

So while there are some advantages to using a pingpong grip the